Date: Dec 8, 2012 2:05 PM
Author: Pentcho Valev
Subject: Re: THE MOST DRAMATIC DILEMMA EVER IN SCIENCE
Both for sound and for light, the speed of the waves relative to the observer varies with the speed of the observer. That is, the principle of constancy of the speed of light, the linchpin that holds modern physics theories together, is simply false:

http://faculty.washington.edu/wilkes/116/slides/Physics116_L08-interference.pdf"Sound waves have speed c, and f and L are related by c=Lf. For an observer moving relative to medium with speed u, apparent propagation speed c' will be different: c'=c±u. Wavelength cannot change - it's a constant length in the medium, and same length in moving coordinate system (motion does not change lengths). Observed frequency has to change, to match apparent speed and fixed wavelength: f'=c'/L."

http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/dopplerAlbert Einstein Institute: "Here is an animation of the receiver moving towards the source: (...) By observing the two indicator lights, you can see for yourself that, once more, there is a blue-shift - the pulse frequency measured at the receiver is somewhat higher than the frequency with which the pulses are sent out. This time, THE DISTANCES BETWEEN SUBSEQUENT PULSES ARE NOT AFFECTED, but still there is a frequency shift: As the receiver moves towards each pulse, the time until pulse and receiver meet up is shortened."

http://www.usna.edu/Users/physics/mungan/Scholarship/DopplerEffect.pdfCarl Mungan: "Consider the case where the observer moves toward the source. In this case, the observer is rushing head-long into the wavefronts... (...) In fact, the wave speed is simply increased by the observer speed, as we can see by jumping into the observer's frame of reference."